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*¢ Summer budding should not be commenced before the middle of 
July, although tolerable success may attend the execution of it in 
August. But worked too early a portion of*the buds will commence 
growing the same season, at a period when it is too late to ripen their 
wood sufficiently before the commencement of frost, and thus be likely 
to sustain injury, or be wholly destroyed.” 
Our correspondent will see that if the stocks be high enough for the 
purposes desired when planted, that the head of the stock should be cut 
off below the shoots already existing, so that new ones (which are 
necessary for budding upon) may be produced the following season. 
If, however, any stock be too low to serve designed purposes, and the 
present head was cut off, then prune back the existing shoots to one bud 
each, which, on pushing, will furnish new shoots for budding upon 
afterwards. | 
PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS.—This noble tree has bloomed in the open 
air in France for several years, a drawing of a floral specimen was 
taken by a French artist, and we inserted it in one of our plates for 
the year 1844. Since that time plants have been numerously pro- 
cured and planted in the open air in our own country, but though it 
grows freely we have’ not heard of its blooming before the one now in 
flower at Claremont. ‘The flowers are borne in panicled heads, of a 
pretty lilac colour, each about the size of a small Gloxinia flower. 
The tree has a noble appearance, the leaves being large, of a roundish 
heart-shaped form. 
It requires to be grown in a sheltered, warm situation, and to be 
upon a dry bottom. The soil should not be rich, but a good loam of 
half a yard or more, deep, for if rich the shoots are very gross, and do 
not ripen well in this country; but when of medium growth, they 
ripen better, and in proportion endure the severities of winter, and 
give hopes of freely blooming with us. 
AcuimEenes.—Few plants are more attractive than the different 
varieties of Achimenes now in cultivation, but they are seldom seen in 
that state of excellence which they are capable of attaining. It is 
customary to grow them in boxes, shallow pans, baskets, and pots, but 
I prefer the latter ; for their bloom is soon over in shallow pans, baskets 
require too much looking after, and stiff unsightly boxes which always 
meet the eye when looking at the flower, detract greatly from that im- 
posing effect they create when properly arranged in pots, and trained 
in the way in which Pelargoniums are shown at Chiswick, only a little 
higher in the centre than the Pelargoniums, and allowed to drop a 
little over the edge of the pot. Nothing can exceed the beauty and 
elegance of A. longiflora and patens grown in this way. Instead of 
planting the tubers at first in small pots and shifting them into larger 
ones as they advance in growth, as is commonly done, I use pots ten 
inches wide and twelve inches deep. After covering the bottom with 
a few crocks I spread a layer of moss over them, on which I place six 
or seven roots, and cover them slightly with a little leaf-mould or 
well rotted cow-dung and sand. As the young shoots lengthen more 
